Slogan du Jour: TAX THE RICH, FEED THE POOR, is our nation's hope for sure! nt

[grahamhgreen]

You mean to tell me we are going to have to fight our own party on extending the BUSH tax cuts for the rich???

Are you kidding me????

The reason we elected Obama was to get rid of the Bush policies, not to f-ing extend them!!!!

Our system can not work if only the uber-rich have all the money.

This is why we must tax those who have stolen most of the money, the system works when the middle class has most of the money and most of the people are middle-class.

The US now has one of the greatest disparities of wealth on the planet - that is what ruining our country.

[dkf]

1. Yet our current economy depends on spending and the poor and middle class have started saving.

If the rich stop spending what happens to our consumption driven economy? Do we care if this causes a further slump and further layoffs? Or do we tell the middle and lower classes that they need to suck it up if we go through another downturn because we think eventually they will benefit?

[grahamhgreen]

2. The ultra rich spend a very small percentage of their wealth

If we tax them and give the money to the poor - it will be spent immediately.

[desertrat777]

3. Fighting the oligarchy of the uber-reich

The slogan Tax the Rich, Feed the Poor, Is Our Nation's Hope for Sure! is a great slogan worth repeating ad infinitum ad nauseum.

There's a war going on, and it is not in Iraqistan; it is a war against our democratic process. We have Obama interfering in primary elections involving Michael Bennett and Blanche Lincoln, and Dianne Feinstein want to be co-chair of a group working to defeat Prop 19 in California (legalizing marijuana) and hence going against her base. We have the Administration now favoring retaining the Bush tax cuts to the rich parasites that are bleeding us to death--a foolhardy move considering the national economy right now and the loss of our manufacturing base.

I never imagined that extending the Bush tax cuts to the rich would be taken seriously. This stance reveals who has grabbed--or stolen--the reins of our democratic republic. We have to get these people and their assault weapons, the monopolistic corporations and the multinationals, our of the Democratic Party. Our representatives of both parties need to act, not like bought-off puppets, but as the representatives of their employers, We the People.

Certainly retaining the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy top 1% who stole our money IMHO will anger all the progressives. Does the Administration want to lose to the Republicans in 2010? Because there seems to be no good reason to vote Democrat at this point. The current Administration has continued with many--or even most--of the Bush policies.

Thom Hartmann recently stated on his radio show that there were two parties in this country, and they weren't red and blue. They were the corporatists and the populists. The corporatists have sold their puppet strings--their agreement and job description to represent we the people--to the uber-rich, and they control nearly all of the Republican Party and a good portion of the Democratic Party. The populists are pretty much limited to the remaining scraps. Sure, we have a choice between the blue milking machine and the red milking machine. Step right up. It's milking time.

Oh, and BTW, you may want to watch the excellent BBC documentary about how propaganda became "public relations." The title of the four part series is The Century of the Self.

Also see this chart from the Congressional Budget Office that shows trends in the current disparity of wealth in this country from 1979 to present; the link is to a site on DU:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/grahamhgreen

Or you could just give all your money to the top 1%. According to the "Trickle Down Theory," they'll "take care of you." Don't fret so much. Just keep shopping.